Improvement in combined corn-planter and shovel-plow



FRANKLIN, HASTINGS & HOLFORD.

Cor'n' Planter and Pl ow. N0. 83,271.- I

Patented Oct. 20, 1868.

Witness (as A. M. FRANKLIN, W. J. HASTINGS/AND J. A. HOLFORD, or RISING SUN, INDIANA. I

"Letters Patent No. 83,271, dated 06am 20,1868.

IIWPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CORN-PLANTER AND SHOVEL-PLOW.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sme.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, A. M. FRANKLIN, w. J. HAST- nses, and J A. HOLFORD, of Rising Sun, in the county of Ohio, and in the State of Indiana, have invented ceroperation, referring to the annexed drawings, which.

form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Figure 2 a sectional side view of the movable planter.

, A A represent two beams, joined together at the front end, where the team is attached, and separating a suitable distance at the rear ends. Near the rear ends of the bars A A, a brace, B, is placed, holding them firmly, and at the ends are secured the shins O O, to the lower ends of which the shovel-plows D D are secured.

The upper ends of the shins O G are secured to the braces F 1*,which, at their rear ends, form the handles for the plow, and at their front ends are attached to the beams A A.

A cross-bar, G, connects the handles of the plow, and braces E-E connect the shins G O with the beams A A, as seen in fig. l.

At a suitable distance in front of the shins O O, and

on top of the beams A A, is placed a cross-bar, H,

from which another bar, I, extends forward, this latter being secured to the front part of the beam A.

The bar I, where it" joins thecross-bar H, forms a platform, on which rests .a' hopper, K, provided with a hole in its bottom, corresponding with a similar opening in the platform,'and from the bottom or lower of the machine, when used as a planter. moves between the beams A A, ,being attached to a side of said platform a metal sheath, L, descends, which, at its lower end, forms a plow, M.

The opening in the bottom of the hopper is closed by a bar, S, which moves up and down by the rotary motionof a wheel, 0, which supports the front end This wheel bar,;P, which descends from the bar I. A lever, N, connects the wheel 0 with the bar S, said lever behlg pivoted to a standard, K, as seen in fig. 1.-

The bar S is provided with a box, T, open at one side, which carries the corn down through the hopper.

It will be seen that, by each revolution of the wheel O,'the bOX'T is raised above the bottom of the hopper, receiving as much corn as is desired to plant in each hill, and, at the downward movement of the bar S, as soon as the box arrives below the hopper, that corn drops out in the sheath L, and falls into the furrow prepared by the plow M.

By removing the bolts or screws which fasten the cross-bar H and bar I to the beams A A, the whole planter can be taken off, and the machine becomes a double-shovel plow.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. The combination of the hopper K,wheel O, lever N, bar S, and b0); T, all constructed as described, and

supported by the cross-bar and bar I, substantially as andfor the purposes herein set. forth.

2. A double-shovel plow, in combination with a movable corn-planter, when both are constructed sub-' I stantially as herein described, and operating as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing, we have hereunto set our hands, this 5th day of August-1868.

A. M. FRANKLIN, W. J. HASTINGS. Witnesses: J. A. HOLEOBD.

H. P.-McQunrnY, .R. L. DAVIS. 

